The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-29

make useful ana cool, as Well as lneXpen-
sive, summer dresses and long dust cloaks.
They are best made up, too, without trim
ming, except tucking and stitching: but
when soiled they should not be washed.
They should be sent to the cleaner, and will
then come out as good as new and ready for
a second season.
Clustered lines-white upon blue, upon
lilac, upon gray and upon ecTu, are com
| bined with the solid color, in ginghams and
other washing fabrics, and are well suited
| for tennis and the morning wear of girls.
| The striped cotton is used for the front OF
the skirt or for sides and turn over upon
! drapery. It also forms the sailor front
| (pointed) and collar of the Garibaldi bodice
and the cuffs upon the sleeves.
CLEVER GIRLS,
who are their own dressmakers, are making
cheap and charming dresses of blue butcher
linen, trimmed with bands of white and
blue embroidery upon the material. These
are made with full bodice and sleeveS-the
bands crossing diagonally to the side and
forming q panel upon the lower half of
the left of the skirt. Striped blue and white
linen also looks well as mounting for butcher
linen.
Oatmeal cloth is cheap and effective ma
terial for the summer dresses of girls who
make their own, but is hardly worth
dresmaker's bill. The prettiest way to
| trim 1T is with narrow stripes of scrim or
oatmeal cloth In which narrow ribbons, silk
or velvet, have been run, and which may be
used for collar, cuffs, reveIs and side stripes
| or to outline jacket bodice il a full dress
front is preferred. Or it may be mounted
with collars and cuffs of brown or black or
stone blue velvet and worn with straw hat
with band of velvet to match.
Hats are in great form and great variety
this year. The large flexible leghorns are
revived for shade hats and are very becom-
TO So,
| blossoms and large bows of wide, creamy
picot striped gauZe ribbon. The majority
of the French hats are in fancy straw and
neutral shades turned up high at the bacl,
or upon one side and trimmed with gauZe
and flowers. But these have not displaced
the sailor hat, which is more youthful, more
available and more readily adapted to tennis
and boating costumes; for a change in the
band, from dotted to stripe from stripe to
solid color, is equivalent to Transformation.
A new straw plat, of which only few
specimens have been seen, seems to be woven
of soft twigs or stems Its sober, greenish
brown tints are perfectly natural, and the
trimming of vine, leaves and berries, with
gauze ribbon interviewed. extremely appro-
pirate.
Another novelty in bonnets consists of
crowns formed Of plated ribbon, or ribbons
i'll clustered stripes with fancy edges. They
are odd looking but too difficult and fam
tastic to become general But the great fea-
ture, after all, Of the summer bonnets is the
freshness given to them by the revival of
fine, faithfully copied, artificial flowers, and
the beauty and daintiness of the old-new
gauze and pecotedged ribbons Solid rib
bons, in solid colors, overpower delicate
flowers, but these soft transparencies in tints
which suit almost everything, are very at
tractive after four years of velvet and
feathers.
FRESHNESS IN SUMNER FASHION
is always charm, and there is comfort in
variety in hot weather. But much of this
comfort is now sacrificed to costliness
Summer wraps, for example-the size of
which is reduced to a minimum are
crossed with lace and jet and ribbons, until
the price is that of an elegant winter cloak
from $S5 to $3.50. Nor do they succeed
always in being graceful and becoming at
that price. An all-lace mantle, such as
ladies wore a few years ago-before the
made" garments with their fantastic little
cut shapes came into vogue-were much
more elegant and becoming, while as to
their availability, it may be sufficient to say
that one bought at Hayward's in London
nine years ago is in existence still, the body
part doing duty as a fchtt, the founces as
cascades upon another wrap, after having
seen four years in its original form.
Wraps are one of the most difficult of the
problems which the dress question presents
in our climate, and with the necessity that
all women feel for dressing up to a certain
standard. A more even temperature re-
quires fewer changes; but the sharp con-
trasts and pitiless shafts to which not only
the seasons but the variations of weather
expose all who live in North America de-
mand provisions for outdoor comfort and
protection of diversified character. The
question in regard to these are made more
perpleXing by the fact that our garments
1 lN.If
other, and are subject to arbitrary and ca
PRECIOUS authority, which exercises its power
without any regard to health OF common
| sense.
AS all our wraps are imported or copied
from imported styles, the cost is an impor-
tant item, and this is the reason why very
many ladies wait for the heavy reductions
made at the close Of the season on all cut
1 and made articles, and buy to put away for
next year. There is nothing that is more
needed thar special cloak houses, managed
} by intelligent women, who possess taste, an
, eye for form, and know the needs of their
sex. The present departments arc all in
the hands of buyers" who go abroad and
make their selections in summer for the next
winter, in winter for the summer, and have
not an idea beyond what they think will
take" the market.
PARASOLS
, are becoming objects of supreme luxury A
| famous silver house in New York now
makes a feature of them, as Tiffany has
always done, and exhibits not one but
dozens, from $3.50 to 500 each. About SI5
, worth of silver is hammered or encrusted
! into the stick the rest of the amount being
scattered over the parasol in one way or
; another, il is hard to tell where. Each one
is, of course, a special production, no two
5 being alike; and the brocades, in clustered
stripes, the plaids, the checks, the embroid-
cred figures being the newest. Still the
, common mind would find it difficult to take
the total of value in, and much of the salts
faction of possession must arise from an
, individual consciousness which cannot be
, | shared.
/, New designs in handkerchiefs are lovely,
because so exquisitely fine and delicate.
Ono has border consisting of seven waved
lines in the finest hem stitching alternating
with regular rows of worked dots. Another
has the little, star-like pixie" TO form a
narrow border in neeClle-work, beyond
which is an equally narrow edging of fine,
real valencienncs. JENNY JUNE.
The Champion Swimmers Double.
From the NeW York Tribune.
Sindstrom, the well-known long distance
swimmer and trainer of the New York Ath-
letic Club. relates an absurd experience he